#tool army

[alchemisoul]

Maynard James Keenan of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer performing with Zach De La Rocha and Rage Against The Machine @ Lollapalooza 1993

Tom Morello watching his high school friend Adam Jones of Tool playing a show in 1991.

[mxdwn]

Tool Announces Fall 2023 Tour Dates

https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/06/06/news/tool-announces-fall-2023-tour-dates/

[grand-theft-carbohydrates]

i literally spend at least 2 hours a week just looking at various pictures of the terracotta army. utterly entranced. look at the details in the hair. you'd never see ANY of this when they're lined up in formation, but they're there.  

theres about 8000 of these guys down there, no two faces are alike. they're works of art. they're the manifestation of a cruel despot's delusions of grandeur. a talisman against the terrible inevitability of death, both pathetic and strangely pitiful. like watching a child clinging to his blanket, begging you not to turn off the light. they were a bunch of insignificant clay statues from a side chamber that was so small and unremarkable, no one bothered to write down the location. they were modelled after real people. their only purpose was to serve qin shi huang in the afterlife, so he could reign in heaven as he did on earth. now the emperor is just a ghost and his pawns are immortal. my dad and i visited them in the dead of winter, on a weekday, just so we wouldn't have to deal with tourists like us. the place had easily 500 people--not including the ones below ground. we traveled to xian via the old "green skin" diesel train. there are faster means, like highspeed rail but dad insisted i try the authentic way, the same way he would have traveled when he was my age it was also like, a quarter of the price but im sure that had nothing to do with it! back in the 80s carriages would get so packed people had to have their luggage passed in via the windows. as we chugged along, i read my book and my dad made us cup noodles. car is just a shortened version of "carriage", the word is the same but the mechanism is different. it's the same in chinese. i think if i told someone from the warring states period i could travel from the Kingdom of Qi to Qin in just four hours with my metal carriage, i'd be laughed out of town--or accused of being a spy and sentenced to 'death by carriage.' we hopped off the train at 4am and took a different "carriage." the taxi driver joked; "basically every dynasty put their capital in xian, stick a shovel anywhere and you'll turn up some national treasure or another." i wonder what it would have felt like to be a farmer digging a well and then out pops a remarkably realistic human head. statistical analysis show the soldier's faces bear a strong similarity to people living in the region today. the taxi stopped in front of a jewellery-hawking tourist trap and refused budge an inch until we went inside. did you know the terracotta soldiers were originally multi-coloured and painfully gaudy, just like the greek marbles? they were made assembly-line style. the arms and legs were made from the same workshops that made clay plumbing pipes and roof tiles. for quality control, the artisans were required to stamp their names. the workers who built these tombs were executed shortly afterwards, because only dead men can be trusted with secrets. qin shi huang's mausoleum is unlikely to be excavated in my father's lifetime, or mine, not unless i'm willing to take a BIG ONE for the team... instead of the tomb, they built some kind of qin shi huang-themed theme park next to it. not only was it tacky as hell the entrance fee was like $50. we went to the museum and i looked at bronze tools and pottery shards for three hours. look why can't we just crack the thing open i can't be the only one here whos dying from curiosity what if we all just took turns digging

[rorotoru]

2023.08.25

The only one who didn't learn the lesson.

[hauntingblue]

Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[gingermintpepper]

How’s Fields of Mistria? You mentioning it was the second time I heard of it, the first time being in passing, so I’m not too knowledgeable about the game.

AWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ASKING!!

Fields of Mistria is SUPER fun, since there's not much to do in it after you've completed the first year right now, I've dedicated myself to breeding and collecting all the seasonal variants of horses so I can name them after the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!

I also named all my barns after metamorphised lovers in greek myth because I have exactly one thought running through my head at any given point in time (Currently there's Crocus Coop where I keep my (gorgeous wonderful lovely adorable ouugh I LOVE THEMMM!!) blue chickens

Cypress Barn where I keep my wonderful cows (who have been with me the longest and whom I cherish immensely! I'm not sure if Autumn cows are possible but I'm definitely aiming for a barn of all red and autumnal cows for obvious reasons)

Minthe Barn where I keep all of my other large animals like sheep, alpacas and my very first beloved Chiron (black and white) and Iris (brown with spots) (the foal is Rigel) 🥺

And Hyacinthus Barn where I have a collection of small animals like rabbits, capybaras and my PRIZED DUCKS LEDA (the pretty blue and green duckie) AND CYCNUS (the pure white duck meant to mimic a swan!!) Even though it's technically a coop, I mistakenly labelled it a barn when I was inputting the name and I never changed it LOL

My farm is also named after THE metamorphosized lover, Daphne herself, so it's called Laurel Farm

And I'm planning for my Seasonal Horse barn to be named after the poplar since I quite like Leuke's story and I think she's fitting of housing the horses that will be the steeds of War, Pestilence, Conquest and Famine :)

Bonus: My house is still small and eclectically decorated, but keeping in theme with my farm, I do hope to go for a flower/garden theme

<33

[thesilicontribesman]

In the late second century CE, a substantial fire destroyed the forum at Wroxeter Roman City. The rubble from the collapsed building buried a unique snapshot of a Roman market day, including sizeable numbers of samian ware and mortaria.

Over one hundred whetstones were found nearby in a neat pile, as if they had been buried boxed.

Whetstone Stack, Shrewsbury Museum, England.

[oneknightstand-if]

Adrian: casually mentions him and MC being zoomers

Me also born in 2005 after reading that: wait... That means... Oh god I'm a zoomer- has an existential crisis

What did you think you were, then? Extra points if the answer is "Harbinger of the Apocalypse".

[kissingarthurclaus]

I recently purchased the new book 'secrets of the clone troopers' that's written and narrated by Rex as sort of a memoir and it's AWESOME with tons of information and beautiful illustrations! 🥺💖💖💖

And we all know that trauma comes free with your fucking clone troopers but NOT HIM CONFIRMING THAT THEY ALL HAVE DADDY ISSUES? 😭😭😭😭

[alchemisoul]

Tool | "Hooker with a Penis" (Pomona, 1996)

I ● met a boy ● wearing Vans ● 501s

And a dope ● Beastie tee ● nipple rings

New tattoos ● that claimed that he

Was OGT ● back from '92 ● from the first EP

And in between ● sips of Coke

He told me ● that he thought we ● were sellin' out

Layin' down ● suckin' up ● to the man

Well now I've got some

Advice for you, little buddy

Before you point the finger

You should know that I'm the man

I'm the man and you're the man

And he's the man as well

So you can point that fuckin' finger up your ass

All you know about me is what I've sold ya, dumb fuck

I sold out long before you'd ever even heard my name

I sold my soul to make a record, dip shit

And then you bought one

All you read and wear or see and

Hear on tv is a product begging for your

Fat-ass dirty dollar

Shut up and

Buy, buy, buy my new record

And buy, buy, buy, send more money

Fuck you, buddy × 4

[orcelito]

minor details, but in chapter 68 of trimax we do see this bit:

the items that vash kept in his coat.

a "funbari doll" (which i cant find anything definite online about what that is with just a cursory look, so im going to run under the assumption that theyre some kind of collectable in-universe) & it's a red one, which is apparently rare. he still has the same pen radio that connects to his earring that's used waaay back on the sandsteamer. a swiss army knife, a random key, a used tissue (?), and...

a lighter? blow torch? i still cant tell what that last bar thing is tho. & i guess he had some kind of (normal) coin too? but Only One.

love the characterization implications for this lol. definitely the kind of pocket contents i'd expect from a silly immortal with a big coat

[emberglowfox]

wow! that's a nice model you've got there. clean geometry, easy to unwrap, not an n-gon in sight! would be a shame if someone

BEVEL TOOL

[ghcstcd]

Some Swiss sketches from the last few days

Support my art on Ko-fi

[babaiii]

lrb but that’s why op politics are so confusing to me 😭 they both have a revolutionary army that pushes people to rise up, while also having ‘good king’ thing and important men of history. garp is objectively a ‘here’s a cop that supports the regime no matter how much it betrays him, as cops do, cops will choose their job over everything else’, but also there koby who’s a good cop?? like i’m def not involved with fandom enough to think about it deeper, but it confuses me to no end, what the fuck is it trying to sell.

if anyone has deeper understanding i’d like to listen lol

[nightfall-1409]

while it started as a core premise of reconvene as we enter season three of the bad batch i wanted to share it bc i do think its worth bringing up as meaningful predictions